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Grant Winners

2 December 2010

EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL

Starting Grant Competition

Almost €580 million (£491 million) has been awarded by the ERC in its third Starting Grant Competition. The awards of up to €2 million each are provided to early career researchers to aid their studies. Listed below (and online) are the UK-based winners in the physical sciences and engineering.

Deciphering the evolution of galaxies and the assembly of structure: probing the growth of non-linear structure in the Dark Universe with statistical analyses of galaxy surveys

• Award winner: Martin James Paterson

• Institution: Heriot-Watt University

Photoinduced chemistry: development and application of computational methods for new understanding

• Award winner: Alexandra Porter

• Institution: Imperial College London

Targeting potential of carbon nanotubes at the blood-brain barrier

• Award winner: Ferdinando Rodriguez Y Baena

• Institution: Imperial College London

STING - a soft tissue intervention and neurosurgical probe

• Award winner: Chrystèle Sanloup

• Institution: University of Edinburgh

Magmas at depth: an experimental study at extreme conditions

• Award winner: Martin Derwyn Smith

• Institution: University of Oxford

Emulating nature through asymmetric catalysis

• Award winner: Helen Marie Talbot

• Institution: University of Newcastle

Quantifying aerobic methane oxidation in the ocean: calibration and palaeo-application of a novel proxy

• Award winner: Rein V. Ulijn

• Institution: University of Strathclyde

Enzyme-driven molecular nanosystems

• Award winner: Kylie Alison Vincent

• Institution: University of Oxford

Understanding and exploiting biological catalysts for energy cycling: development of infrared spectroelectrochemistry for studying intermediates in metalloenzyme catalysis

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• Award winner: Stephanie Perichon Lacour

• Institution: University of Cambridge

Stretchable electronic skins

By exploring stretchable electronic circuitry, this project will seek to advance the technology that can be used to control distributed transducers over large and uneven 3D structures. Research will consider developing advanced materials for ultra-compliant applications using micro and nanotechnology, fabricating soft but mechanically structured transducer circuits, creating new characterisation tools for stretchable circuitry, while investigating how to produce conformable, biocompatible and bioelectronic interfaces. It is hoped that the research will lead to novel handheld devices, cheap and disposable skin-healing monitors and alternatives for patients in need of prostheses.